mullymusicno real answer

you came here with just one thing on your mind
to play your part and hope i would not find
to twisted thoughts, you are no stranger
just biding time, with hidden danger, you wait
so fueled by the hate

you cultivate, their poisoned seed
you follow blind, the lies they feed

you're blending in so i won't notice the ruse
behind my back, you're plotting your next move
controlling all with just one finger
the targets hit, but you don't linger, you run
don't care what's been done

the light you stole, can't be replaced
but in your mind, there's no disgrace

on and on and on it goes
another day for you to make more victims
with empty words and misdirection
clouding over your perception
everything you do is just deception, oh oh

what i see is all of the pain that you cause
from playing games inside the broken laws
though some will say, there should be silence
while you go out and spread your violence again
but where does it end

you cultivate, the poisoned seed
they follow blind, the lies you feed

another fool will come along when you're gone
a new crusade to justify more wrong
you glorify the broken reason
your tainted flag wrapped up in treason, but still
it's all for the kill

the light you stole, can't be replaced
but in your mind, there's no disgrace

and on and on and on it goes
another day for you to make more victims
with empty words and misdirection
clouding over your perception
everything you do is just deception, oh oh
oh oh oh oh

this out-lashing towards the confederate flag is merely a modern day movement similar to those that rallied against the appearance of white people wearing "blackface" in tv and movies.

it's justifiable and about time.

as a child, i loved "song of the south". because it was a cartoon. it was a character study to a young mind that was and is fascinated by people.

as a slightly older youngster, i also enjoyed "the dukes of hazzard". because it was cartoonish scenarios played out with real people. a lightweight morality play of anti-heroes against power and wealth.

as a sometimes childish adult, i cannot view that film, that show, or that flag, with naivety. they are all connected to a tainted past. glorifying a national scar whose scab keeps getting picked at before it has time to heal.

much like previous periods in our history, this is the time for this particular symbol of enslavement and treason, to retreat into that history.

let it officially join other symbols of hatred, that are better relegated to museums, under protective glass. where they can be gawked at by the curious, or romanticized by the twisted, who prefer their delusions above the value of some of their fellow human beings.

let those that choose to fly it on their homesteads do so. it will serve as a beacon of awareness to the rest of us of their intolerance and darkness.

but let it be removed from government buildings. it has no right or reason to be there. those who heralded it lost that fight long ago.

it is time that we move on from that.
it is time we let that wound begin to heal.